A year’s worth of lake photos: How cool is that?

Twelve months ago, we asked you to submit your best photos of Lake Michigan—and you didn’t disappoint. We received more than 1,000 pictures in that time; each week we picked the best image, which we posted on our Instagram account (and are re-running above). We also created a Flickr album of summer pictures taken by our staff photographers. All of these images prove what we’ve been saying for years: It really is cooler by the lake.